parasaurolophus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Parasaurolophus, a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of what is now North America that walked both as a biped and a quadruped.
Example Sentences
- "Forty-eight hours after a single announcement on the 353rd broadcast of the Greater Sinclair Minstrels, one million dinosaur stamp books were distributed through 30,000 Sinclair Dealers. So many additional requests were received that another two million albums were printed and distributed. Only an outstanding program could secure so tremendous a response—even with the aid of brontosauri, parasaurolophi and other long departed dinosaurs."
- "Instead of a dramatis personae of species, The Dinosaurs uses its beasts to illustrate climate, daily life, movement, danger, even extinction. So we meet nesting hydrosaurs, a singing pair of parasaurolophi, a herd of treetop-browsing brontosaurs."
- "The Ride is a swift trip on a water raft through a jungle inhabited by stegosauri, parasaurolophi, dilophosauri, velociraptors and other life-size mechanical dinosaurs."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Parasaurolophus walkeri
Parasaurolophus tubicen
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus